Sacramento Container Corp, manufacturer of corrugated boxes for the food and beverage industry in Northern California, has announced that they will open their second manufacturing and warehousing facility at a building formerly owned by Del Monte and used as a warehouse for their nearby cannery. The vacant 100,000 sf warehouse was sold to Sacramento Container last week.
Company president Joseph LeRoy says they chose the Kingsburg facility due to its location to current major customers, such as Sun-Maid. “Initially, there will be approximately 25 employees working at the facility. Over the next 24 to 36 months SCC plans to increase the number of jobs to 200.”
According to Kingsburg Mayor Chet Reilly, “I was excited to hear about Sacramento Container’s plans to expand into Kingsburg and bring with them a significant number of new jobs. This comes on the heels of other recent announcements of new businesses opening in Kingsburg. The location of new businesses in Kingsburg is not the result of mere luck but a concentrated effort to let companies know that Kingsburg is open for business.”
Kingsburg lost a major employer last year when Del Monte’s big peach cannery closed along with the nearby warehouse. The plant itself on 50 acres recently sold to Grace Church of the Valley. The cannery operation used to employ over a thousand workers in peak fruit season.
Nearby, the former Silgan can making plant,also empty – has significant interest by parties, says city manager Don Pauley. Silgan’s closure laid off an additional 60 workers last year.
Now Kingsburg looks to regain some of those jobs.
Sacramento Container Corporation was founded in 1992 by Joseph LeRoy who continues to operate the company. SCC’s current operation is in Northern California at the McClellan Air Force Base with 320,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space. The expansion into Kingsburg allows SCC to better serve their current and future customers in the Fresno and Bakersfield markets. SCC plans on manufacturing corrugated boxes in the new facility beginning approximately April 15, 2013.
According to LeRoy, “We’re the largest by volume independent corrugated manufacturer in Northern California. What differentiates us from our competitors is our adoption of a culture that is focused on a unique approach to service our customers. For example, our standard lead time is three working days, and we warehouse and just-in-time deliver for the majority of our customers. We are excited In 2012, SCC sold 1 billion 130 million square feet of corrugated boxes. To put that into perspective, one could take a sheet of corrugated 1 foot wide and wrap it around the equator 8 times to equal the amount of corrugated the company manufactured last year. LeRoy plans on eventually manufacturing that much corrugated in Kingsburg .
“It’s been a joy doing business in Kingsburg. Everyone, including City Manager Don Pauley, that we’ve dealt with has been extremely helpful and made the transition relatively easy for a new business to move into the market.” LeRoy said.
